Board 8 > Safer_777's Contest Analysis!

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Last Bump for today since I am going to sleep.
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Division 3 Semifinal

Red VS Big Boss
Red(52.18%) defeated Big Boss(47.82%)

Well after Red defeated Sora no way he would lose here. I mean come on now, Big Boss didn't do anything good too. But here is the strange part. Look at the result. He did almost as good as Sora. Why? That means he scores on Sora around 49%. Let us be real, would anybody say that before the contest? No. Also Crash scores like 45% on Sora too?
Why? So from what I gather from these results. Seems that Crash, Red, Big Boss and Sora are close in strength? Who would have thought that before the contest? So I guess they aren't that strong anyways. Still Red managed to advance and that is all that matters. When you see that Mewtwo and Charizard don't go good but a human Pokemon character advances you see that strange things are happening. Man I wish the Zard was here instead of Red. Eh whatever. Well Big Boss fought valiantly but of course he lost. I mean people had him losing easily but nope. Still any match with around 53%-47% is always nice. Man these Pokemon though. They win even when there are no Pokemon around!

Alucard VS Kefka
Alucard(59.44%) defeated Kefka(40.56%)

So as matches went we saw that Alucard did good and Kefka did good too. So Kefka we thought had some chances to win. Yeah sure. Man this guy trolls us all the time! How he does that in all the contests nobody knows. But as for Alucard. Not only he does so good but he has a chance to take a division too! First time he does so well. Yeah the opponents are weak sure. But still.
Alucard is on a roll here. I wonder why. Alucard...is Dracula spelled backwards! WHAT? Mind=blown! But in all seriousness nice to see such a character to reach that far. Still it seems that the division final match will be amazing. Finally a Castlevania game/character is doing so good. Yeah I know we had SOTN doing good once but still. Variety is always nice! We need to have such things instead of you know FF and Zelda games/characters. As for Kefka...pretty sure he laughs on us all! Keep doing what are you doing Kefka! And of course in the next contest prepare for a trolling for him again!

Division 4 Semifinal

2B VS Bowser
Bowser(58.19%) defeated 2B(41.81%)

2B did really good for a newcomer to reach here but of course everybody knew that Bowser would win. You can't just beat the most iconic videogame villain of all time especially if you are a newcomer! But here is the thing. She did really good! Everyone was expecting at least 60% from Bowser! Damn! So why?
Well she is a fanservice character yeah BUT she got announced for SC 6 AND her game is actually pretty good from what I gather! Seriously! So people supported her. I mean she go a 1 seed so seems that yeah this is true. So even though she lost, she went out with style at least. As for Bowser well he is strong. Duh. He should be anyways! But funny to see a character losing by a lot and still impressing! Maybe next time she does better or something. Hope that is true!

Phoenix VS Kirby
Kirby(68.31%) defeated Phoenix(31.69%)

After a miraculous victory on Round 2 we all knew that this match would be end of the contest for Phoenix. He isn't strong or anything, we all know that. I mean Gordon Freeman got his first victory against Phoenix!This contest is the one that has reached the further too! Damn! So who beat him? Kirby. I wrote above about Kirby, read if you want.
Basicallly I don't understand why he is so strong. Anyways of course he owned Phoenix, I mean he won with more than a doubling. Kirby is improving with every contest. Would you believe me if I told you that in the very first contest he lost on the 1st match against Jill! Yeah! Man! Things change eh?So yeah. Kirby is perhaps the strongest non N9er. Don't ask me why, I just don't get it. Anyways awesome win for Kirby. As for Phoenix hey he did his best so that is all anyone could ask for! Maybe next time he does better? Don't think so but we can hope!
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Division 5 Semifinal

Squall VS Zelda
Zelda(63.32%) defeated Squall(36.68%)

Don't know what to say. Look at this. Okay. Let us talk about this. Before the contest Squall was the favorite but Zelda had supporters too. As the contest went on Zelda became the favorite but Squall wasn't out too. But man. Don't know. When I first checked the results I thought there was a rally. Or something. Still I can't believe it. A little bit of history for Squall in the contests.
1st contest Squall loses to Snake. 2nd contest Squall loses to Samus. 3rd contest Squall loses to Cloud. 4th contest Squall loses to Vincent but barely enough and Vincent was a beast back then. 5th contest Squall loses to Snake. 6th contest Squall loses to Snake. 7th contest Squall loses to Mewtwo BUT there were 3 Square characters in that match so a lot of SFF. 8th contest Squall loses to Snake(his cryptonite). 9th contest Squall loses to Vivi but Pokemon was rallied and of course Vivi is another Square character so SFF again.
So why I wrote all this? To see that Squall is pretty damn strong! Some people were saying he might be the strongest character in the bracket except Sephiroth of course! So for 1 VS 1 Squall has lost only to N9er's except Vincent back then when he even defeated Crono indirectly. So for Zelda. She hasn't done well in the contests except the Female one where of course she did well, duh. I mean which females are strong here? Tifa, Samus and Zelda. Maybe Aeris too. So NOBODY could predict this result. NOBODY. Don't deny this. So what is going on? Squall has fallen this much or Zelda has risen this much? Maybe a combination of both or just 1 of them? According to these results Zelda beats Squall's opponents with like 85% to 90%. No way this is right. I can't fathom this.
But if the boost to Zelda and Link is real and it is so strong that means that nobody can break even 30% on Link! Even with strong rallies. Seriously. So once again I don't know what to say. The only good thing I can say is that makes Ezio looking somewhat decent. And congrats to Zelda. This match was the one that nobody expected this result, at least not this much difference in percentages. Man Link will beat another Nintendo character with like 80%! Damn! This contest has lost all credibility! Nah just kidding about the last part. Still I don't get it.

Fox VS Aerith
Aerith(52.7%) defeated Fox(47.3%)

Now this is a strange match. What I mean? Before the contest Aerith was the slight favorite. As the contest went on Fox became the clear favorite. But Aerith managed to do it. Also a strange fact is that Fox won in USA! And he lost with more than 3% which is a record for sure. Man Americans REALLY like Nintendo! Don't know why. Maybe some Americans can tell me why.
Anyways nice to see FF 7 winning at least. Fox is always a midcarder in these things. Also Aerith is the only 15 seed to reach the division finals! Damn! Yeah the opponents were weak. Okay fine. Still that is impressive. Also she beat 3 Nintendo characters! Square>Nintendo confirmed! So as a FF 7 fanboy this match was good. But man I dread to think about the next match...
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Division 6 Semifinal

Geralt VS Bayonetta
Geralt(50.88%) defeated Bayonetta(49.12%)

This match was awesome! hightly debatable too. Not only Bayonetta was the favorite to win but Geralt win and a newcomer reaches the division finals too! Yeah the opponents are weak. Fine. But
man! Geralt is awesome! Also strangely enough he won in USA too! What?Isn't Bayonetta a Nintendo character now? She is in Smash and 2 of her games are on Ninendo consoles. Also once again like the previous match Geralt was losing but he came back and won.I think he was losing like 12 hours!
Don't know why this happens. But this is nice to see. Close matches like this one are always awesome. But this proves that Geralt can't get a rally. If he hasn't gain a rally until now, he will not get one. Still I don't know if this is the best a newcomer has done, meaning reaching the division finals but still as a guy that likes Geralt I can't complain.
Obviously Bayo did well too but it wasn't enough. And matches like this are the best ones. Close ones and we can't be sure who will win until the match ends. Not like N9'ers who based on the opponent
we instantly know who will win and by how much usually. Nice win for Geralt once again.

Auron VS Sub-Zero
Auron(56.71%) defeated Sub-Zero(43.29%)

We knew that Auron would win here. Auron is an elite and Sub-Zero is decent. Also Auron has beat Sub-Zero before with like almost 60%. So Sub-Zero did better at least here. So not much to say. Auron won but as I said before he didn't win with as much as expected. Well FF 10 has fallen of course but not that much for Auron to lose. Still a win is a win. Also look at Auron. If his design isnt' badass, I don't know what it is. As for Sub-Zero he was always my favorite MK character. I guess he is still recognizable here. Well I should have expected that. Still nice win for Auron to end this thing.
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Aeris did well to beat Fox, but Zelda is a different story. I completely failed to call Zelda's rise, too.
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@Vlado Yeah I agree. Of course after the contest ends we can see what went but for now it seems strange.
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Division 7 Semifinal

Luigi VS Tails
Luigi(69.65%) defeated Tails(30.35%)

Obviously this match was set in stone. But man. Almost 70%? This I didn't expected. Man Tails is weak. But the opponents he beat are super weak it seems! Or Luigi is a beast. What else to say? Luigi has reached that far a couple times before but he has never win a division. Maybe he can do it now! Weegee for sure man! And yeah nothing else to say. This match was boring of course. Nice to see a Sonic character reaching that far though. Tails reaching this far is the best he did.

Tifa VS MMX
Tifa(50.18%) defeated MMX(49.82%)

If the previous match was boring this is the best match of the contest so far. Look at the result! At the 5 minute mark there was a tie! But after that MMX started gaining and we thought that was it. Tifa cut somewhat but MMX was still ahead. Oh well. Eventually MMX was ahead by around 450 votes so that means in this contest this wasn't possible to beat without rallies. Or was it?

But after USA gone to sleep Tifa begun fighting back. As you know Americans really like Nintendo so of course MMX had a huge lead there. Okay MMX isn't pure Nintendo but he started there. So since we Europeans know better of course we supported Tifa, duh. So Tifa begun cutting and cutting. And she went ahead! She was winning with 2 votes for 2 straight updates!!! Then Tifa used a Limit Break I guess and she begun pulling. She was ahead with around 195 votes then MMX used his special oves(haven't played the games, don't know what he uses!) and he begun cutting.

After some hours he was ahead with like 8 votes! And he begun gaining again! He picked with around 90 votes! The Tifa used her Ultimate Limit Break and started fighting back! She begun cutting and eventually there was a TIE! Then Tifa ahead with 16 votes and then another TIE! Damn! Then Tifa ahead with like 1 vote! With less than 1 hour for the match to end! And she finally managed to win with around 115 votes! Phew!

So what saved Tifa? PORN! Of course! I am serious! Porn man! Someone posted a rally on Hentai sub reddit and this gave her the final push to win! Man porn saves the day again! I think MMX had a rally too but you can't win over porn! So yeah awesome match. Also it is in top 10 of the closest matches.

But man! MMX fought bravely but he can't defeat the porn! Nobody can! So yeah even though MMX won easily in USA with more than 53% he lost. So yeah. Man these kind of matches are why I like contests. I had MMX on my bracket but I didn't care! Still awesome match. Wish I was in the last few hours but I am from Europe so I can't.

Still even with this match beeing so close we can't even fill 2 stats topics? Man things have changed a lot. Still as I said so many times amazing match.
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Division 8 Semifinal

Sephiroth VS Amaterasu
Sephiroth(61.37%) defeated Amaterasu(38.63%)

Well Sephiroth would win here of course. But look at this result. Is this bad, decent or good? Don't know. This seems that Amaterasu is stronger than Falcon. But is she? Is Falcon that weaker? Can't really say. She always does decent of course. But don't know. I guess this is a bad result? Nobody knows. There is 1 thing for certain though, the division final will be hell. Since I am a Sephiroth fanboy I will say that it is a good result. Hey!

Ryu VS KOS-MOS
Ryu(65.07%) defeated KOS-MOS

Obviously KOS-MOS didn't stand a chance here. Also Ryu and KOS-MOS have fought before like 14 years ago and Ryu won with around 62% back then. Now he did better. Of course Ryu now is much more known than KOS-MOS. Also this is the 1st time that KOS-MOS advances that far. So I think she did good reaching that far. I know her from the Project X-Zone games but that is. As for Ruy everybody knows him. Also Ryu seems really strong. Maybe he can win another division too. Let us see. Good win for Ryu of course, duh.
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good recaps. You deserve a silver star
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@SuperNiceDog Hey thanks. Silver is good!
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Thoughts for the end of Round 3.

Much better than Round 2. Well it should be! Highlights are Alucard have a big chance to take a division, Zelda dominating, Geralt once again coming from behind to win and of course Porn saving Tifa.

Also another thing. Out of all these division we have 3 Characters from FF7! Think about that! Aerith, Tifa and Sephiroth. And if Vincent faced a weaker 3 Seed he would be in the division final too. Don't know what to say. FF7 always wins? Guess all these characters were lucky or something?

Still Round 4. I expect to see something, but it will not be as good as Round 3 of course.
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Division 1 Final

Ganondorf VS Vivi
Ganondorf(51.96%) defeated Vivi(48.04%)

So of course after Ganon beat Dante easily we knew he would win. Vivi did beat Donkey Kong yeah but he did as expected. But man. He broke 48% on Ganondorf! Now this we didn't expected. We were expecting around 55% to tell the truth. Maybe 54%. But no. Vivi did really good. So what this says? It says that Vivi is damn strong!
And that is good. But man. I don't know what place is Vivi on FF hierarchy but it has to be a really high one. Also I don't understand that he has boosted. From where? And don't say that Ganon got weaker. Don't believe that. Still not much else to say. Ganondorf won and as per tradition he did much better in USA of course. Still Vivi impressed a lot. Now the reward for Ganondorf is to score like 10% on Link and make everything look extremely weak. Fun!

Division 2 Final

Zero VS Pikachu
Pikachu(56.56%) defeated Zero(43.44%)

Well the rat would win no problem here. Also funny enough he beat Yoshi with lower percentage than he did on Zero. Meaning Yoshi>Zero. The stats don't lie! Some say that Pokemon have fallen but I don't believe it. I mean they are not insane like they were in the previous contest with the rallies and such but they are good.
And Pikachu is damn strong. I am with the rat all the way myself! As for Zero he did as expected. Basically this match was as expected. So congrats to the rat. Oh and also Pikachu won a division for the 2nd time in a row! Save_us.rat indeed!
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Up.
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Bump.
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So this is the first contest where we don't get any correct predictions for the matches? This sucks.
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Division 3 Final

Red VS Alucard
Alucard(53.91%) defeated Red(46.19%)

By the time we reached this match Alucard was the heavy favorite! Nobody expected that before the contest. You know how many Gurus had Alucard winning the division? 1 person! Which is one of the lowest picks ever for a division winner I believe! Seriously! Alucard star of the contest no doubt. Before this he hadn't done anything important. And look at him now!

Now why all this though? Has he boosted this much? Personally I don't believe so. I believe everyone on this division has fallen a lot except Alucard who has boosted of course a little. As for Red. He did okay actually.

Seems strange though, I mean that means that Big Boss and Sora have fallen a lot! And it makes sense probably. KH 3 boost is fake and it makes sense because after so many years nobody can keep caring. Remember when Sora scored more than 45% on MM? Yeah! And as for Big Boss, MGS characters haven't done so good. We don't like MGS 5 here I guess and Kojima left too. We shall see that Snake
does though. But anyways. Alucard rocked man! Also all his wins were under 60% which is impressive on its own way! So yeah. Hybrids man! They rule!

Division 4 Final

Bowser VS Kirby
Bowser(53.86%) defeated Kirby(46.14%)

So before the contest Kirby was the favorite. And as the contest went on Kirby became the heavy favorite. Also all the Crew picked Kirby to win. There is always a crazy person that picks the other guy in most matches but not here. So of course Bowser won! What? How could that have happened? Why almost everyone had Kirby winning easily?

The answer is...I don't know! Someone made a post based on x-stats for every year and every year Bowser was above Kirby. Every year! Damn! I guess people thought that since Charizard and 2B did okay on Bowser Kirby would beat him. But here is the thing. Kirby has defeated weaker opponents and that made him looking good. So that is probably why Kirby was considered the heavy favorite. So when the match started the Nintendo Hierarchy came into play.

What is this thing? Basically you like Nintendo. So you vote for these characters of course. But the characters from the more popular series beat the ones from the least popular. So when you have a character from the Mario series and a character from the Kirby series you will vote for the one from the Mario series because well that is the one you like better. So yeah. This is what I believe at least.

Also another villain won a division too! If Sephiroth manages to win that would mean that the 3 strongest villains will be winning divisions. Well we shall see. Still awesome win for Bowser. Turtle/Dragon/Dinosaur/Ox(?) hybrids man! Also this match had almost the same percentage as the other match and they both were going at the same time and in both matches hybrids won! Something is going on here I tell you!

But seriously Bowser defied expectations too. That is always good.
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Man I forgot about the Kirbeh meme! Now I think Kirby should have won!
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Porn saves Tifa and Bowser (what?)

I do believe Bowser is going to defeat Crono
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Safer_777 posted...

So what saved Tifa? PORN!

Don't fall for this crap. Registered user vote was 5029 to 5031 - practically tied. It's entirely plausible for Tifa to win the close match without the "porn rally" excuse that a known crybaby like black turtle made up, and people bitter that Tifa smashed their brackets perpetuated.
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Vlado posted...

Safer_777 posted...

So what saved Tifa? PORN!

Don't fall for this crap. Registered user vote was 5029 to 5031 - practically tied. It's entirely plausible for Tifa to win the close match without the "porn rally" excuse that a known crybaby like black turtle made up, and people bitter that Tifa smashed their brackets perpetuated.

For the record, I'm perpetuating it because it's hilarious.
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Division 5 Final

Zelda VS Aerith
Zelda(62.19%) defeated Aerith(37.81%)

So after the previous match where Zelda dominated Squall there was only 1 question. Would Zelda do better against Aerith? Personally I thought so. I mean Aerith should be weaker than Squall right? But as you can see she actually did a little worse. So does that means that Aerith is stronger than Squall? Possibly? Can't be sure.

Also this is the highest win for the division finals in this contest. Zelda is a beast confirmed! Now if she did more than 65% I would admit that she would beat even some N9ers. But now I don't think so. I can see getting really close to the weaker ones but not beating them. Still amazing win for Zelda. All her wins in the division are above 60% too!

Now that is power! So yeah. I don't know how will she performs against N9ers but we shall see. As for Aerith she did okay. I mean most had her losing in the previous round anyways. I guess FF7 is still good around here. Well she did beat 3 Nintendo characters in a row! But the 4th one was too much for her it seems.

Division 6 Final

Geralt VS Auron
Auron(53.14%) defeated Geralt(46.86%)

Man this saddens me. Geralt in all his matches was losing before fighting and came ahead! Seriously all 3 of them! He is a fighter! But yeah without a rally we all knew he would lose here. Yeah Auron has fallen but he is still strong. I mean look at him. We can only ream to be so badass as him! Still Geralt kept fighting and of course he won some updates too as expected but it wasn't enough.

But I think he did good for you know a newcomer. I mean he reached the final division match and scored around 47% too. So yeah. Man if only we had some kind of a rally. Well you can't have everything. But I believe in the next contest he will be weaker. Except if the Netflix Witcher series is really good and boosts him, like Neflix Castlevania series boosted Alucard.

Also strangely enough Auron did worse here than he did on Sub-Zero. Even though I like Geralt I would never picked him over Sub-Zero before the contest. Did he caught a small bandwagon as some said? I believe that is true. Still nice fight. Also we have finally a FF character that won a division! Still funny
enough that Auron and Vivi are much stronger than the protagonists in their games!

So yeah good match and nice win once again for Auron.
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@Vlado So no porn/hentai factor then? This contest has lost all credibility.
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Division 7 Final

Luigi VS Tifa
Tifa(51.36%) defeated Luigi(48.64%)

I think before the contest the winner of MMX/Tifa match was considered the favorite. But Luigi could do it too. Meaning these 3 characters had equal support from what I believe. As you all know in the MMX/Tifa match there were rallies and Tifa managed to barely advanced. In this match there were no rallies and Tifa beat Luigi more easy that she defeated MMX.

Tifa VS MMX was the best match of the contest anyways. This match was close of course but Tifa was never in danger. Well she was losing for 1 hour and then she went ahead and stayed ahead. Also once again at the 5 minute mark she was tied! Now that is awesome. You know I thought actually that Luigi would win. Yeah I know that Tifa had beaten him before but I thought she would have fallen while Luigi would have risen. And this was true but in smaller percentages that I have expected. So yeah.

Tifa managed to win and that was awesome. She also had much tougher opponents that Luigi had. So she deserved to win the division! Also a strange thing I noticed. Tifa has taken part in 6 contests including this one only! I always thought she was there in all of them! Luigi has missed the very first contest too. Eh whatever.

Division 8 Final

Sephiroth VS Ryu
Sephiroth(60.26%) defeated Ryu(39.74%)

So well before the contest there was a small chance that Ryu would be able to beat Sephiroth since well everyone was saying that Sephiroth has fallen a lot. But as the contest went on this prooved to be false. People were expecting Sephiroth to win with around 57% but he won with more than 60%. Even I as a Seph fan didn't expected it. Because of Amaterasu. Guess she is strong now or something like that?

Also Ryu was beating Sephiroth for like 2 minutes. Funny enough as per tradition for FF 7 characters, meaning they keep rising as the match goes on, in the 5 minute mark Sephiroth was around 52.7% and he won with more than 60%! Damn! So what I gather from all of these? Sephiroth hasn't dropped and in fact he might have even boosted a bit! Why? Because I don't believe that Ryu has fallen that much and that Amaterasu is weak. Or maybe it is true? Can't be sure.

Anyways he won a good victory. And in fact some people were even saying that Seph>Mario based on this result! Yeah sure. Even I as a huge fan can't see that. Still nice to see FF 7 still do good. So there you go. We had in 1 day 2 FF 7 winners! FF 7 always wins.
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So thoughts for Round 4.

Pretty good actually. Obviously the star here is Alucard. But FF7 did really well. We had 3 characters reaching to this round and 2 of them winning actually! Also Zelda has the highest percentage. I would say that Geralt also impressed even though he lost.
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Up since no more analysis until well the matches.
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Zelda and Alucard were the stars of the division battles

Also Geralt did amazing for a Newcomer and all his matches had some excitement to them. Id have been fine for a rally victory if it happened.
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So some personal thoughts. These are must my opinions.

Round 1

Top 3 characters

Amaterasu(crushed the previous champion)
Master Hand(The joke almost nobody expected)
Aya Brea(a win after 16 years!)

Bottom 3 characters

Cecil(5 loses in a row! And he is the main character from the 2nd most popular old FF game too!)
Ren Amamiya(come on, a 2 seed and he had The Joker nickname and still lost)
Draven(I know that we didn't had any rallies but he is so weak!)

Round 2

Top 3 characters

Donkey Kong(like 3 people thought that he would go to Round 3 before the contest)
Red(beating Sora we all thought would be strong because of KH 3 boost. And he is not even a Pokemon!)
KOS-MOS(Most had her losing to Round 1 and she reached Round 3 for first time too!)

Bottom 3 characters

Yuna(almost everyone before the contest expected to defeat Alucard)
Ike(he is in Smash and he can't even beat Phoenix!)
Shepard(we all thought he would be weaker but this much?)

Round 3

Top 3 characters

Zelda(dominating Squall so easily!)
Geralt(for like the 3rd time in a row he was losing at the start but he came back and he won!)
Tifa(porn rallies! Yeah they might not even existed but I like to pretend that they existed!)

Bottom 3 characters

Dante(come on man, can you stop choking at the tough matches?)
Squall(seriously dude, you were the heavy favorite before the contest)
Tails(yeah he was weak but losing in Round 3 with like 70%?)

Round 4

Top 3 characters

Alucard(star of the contest so far no doubt)
Vivi(yeah he lost but more than 48% on Ganon!)
Geralt(he lost but nobody expected before the contest to do so good!)

Bottom 3 characters

Kirby(like 95% had Kirby winning this round and he lost)
Ryu(can't even break 40% on a weaker Sephiroth)
Luigi(this is controversial but I always thought he would win the division and especially after doing so good in the previous round)
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@Exodecai Yeah I agree. I think Nanis23 tried rallying for Geralt but couldn't do it.
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So for franchises

Obviously the Legend Of Zelda franchise did the best. 2 representatives and they both won a divisionl

FF 7 did very good too. 4 representatives, 2 of them won a division, 1 reached the final match and the other even though lost early I believe that if Auron wasn't there and there was a weaker 3 seed he would be able to do it too. Probably.

Pokemon did decent. Obviously Pika dominated and I wouldn't count out Charizard and Mewtwo even though they are much weaker now. Red did good too.

Kingdom Hearts...yeah sure. It bombed! I mean 2 out of 3 advanced to Round 2 and they both lost there. And one of them was 1 Seed too!

Resident Evil did bad too. Only 2 characters out of 5 advanced to Round 2 and the both lost easily.

Can't say for other franchises because I am not familiar with them.
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Anti bump.
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So don't have anything more to say. I believe that for the debatable matches at least Mario will beat both Samus and Snake. And oh yeah Link will beat everyone.
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I don't see why Kirby losing to Bowser was considered a surprise. I had Charizard there, but between Kirby and Bowser I would've always picked the latter.
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@Vlado I know. But since I was checking the Crew topics and the Stats topics almost everyone had Kirby advancing. So it is. Personally I always thought that Bowser would win but since almost everyone was telling that Kirby would win I chose him in my bracket too.
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Bowser was actually the plurality pick by Guru entrants, pre-contest. That's especially impressive given that Charizard looked like a contender pre-contest, whereas Kirby was guaranteed to reach Round 4.

Your perception evidently stems from the shifting of the tide that took place after Kirby's excellent results in Rounds 2 and 3 versus Bowser's pedestrian performances, which resulted in dominant Kirby picks among the Crew and the Oracle.

@MetalmindStats Okay I see. Makes sense.
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Sleep bump.
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I was convinced Kirby was going to win against Bowser.... but I'll gladly take the Bowser victory! Hoping he can beat Crono too.
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@Exodecai Yeah I agree. In fact from all 8 divisions this was the one that I was so sure that Kirby would win. Even more sure than Sephiroth! Yeah the board tricked me!
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Up.
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Finals Bracket Round 1

Link VS Ganondorf
Link(79.64%) defeated Ganondorf(20.36%)

Finally the(former)champ is here! Of course he would win. And this match has happened before. So the question was with how much he would win though. In the previous match Link had beaten Ganondorf with around 88%! Now he won with less than 80%. So why?

I believe Link has dropped a bit. Yeah it happens to everyone. Also anti-votes too probably. So there you go. Funny when someone wins with around 80% and it is not considered good! Of course Link will win the whole thing anyways so there you go.

Also I hope the stats guys adjust the X-Stats because with this result Vivi scores like 18% on Link which is a lie, since he breaks 30% for sure. Nothing more to add. It is a Link match. He wins.

Mega Man VS Pikachu
Pikachu(50.11%) defeated Mega Man(49.89%)

This is it. This is maybe the most important match in contest history. For the first time ever a non NN'er beats a NN'er in a 24 hour match, with no rallies and no stupid things. Damn. And the one that did it? Pikachu. The guy who barely break 55% on Parappa on the first contest! Man how much he has risen!

Obviously MM was always strong. He is a NN'er after all. Of course in the last years he has fallen and he even was considered the weakest NN'er too. Guess he is? Doubt it. Pikachu is just a monster.
A pocket monster! Yeah I am stupid I know. Still this match was the best of the contest no doubt. Also this is one of the closest wire to wire matches ever. Don't know in which position but it is.

Anyways at the start MM was winning of course. He managed to get to 237 lead which was the highest for both characters and then Pika started cutting. This started happening after around 5 hours. So after almost 4 hours of Pika cutting he managed to get ahead finally. Then he started getting a lead. Managed to go to around 110. Then MM started cutting and he went ahead too. And then he started building a lead. He went to 150 and then Pika started cutting again. Then Pika went ahead with like less than 2 hours left in the match. And MM started stalling and cutting but he wasn't able to do it at the end. In the end Pika won with around 62 votes. What a match!

Now of course people will say that MM won with the resistered voters and that is true. MM also won in USA too. And that is true too. But let's be real. He just lost. And that is. Still he went out with a fight. Of course the term NN'er will not die. There is currently a topic that details the matches from NN'ers. Seriously even if we count ALL the matches ever they have like 95% victories too! That is impressive.

Still as a fan of Pokemon I like this result. So there you go. Pika got revenge for Charizard for 2013 too! Pokemon man. I still don't get why they are so strong though. And I am a fan too! Still this match will always be remembered.
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Safer_777 posted...

with no rallies

I assume you mean no Draven level rallies, as I definitely rallied both sides
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Oh didn't show that in the stats topics. Also why both sides?
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Safer_777 posted...

Oh didn't show that in the stats topics. Also why both sides?

Just for fun. It ended up creating the second result in the contest where the registered user bonus changed the outcome, so I don't regret it
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Hey nice then. I always liked rallies anyways.
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Cloud VS Alucard
Cloud(60.4%) defeated Alucard(39.6%)

Alucard did well to reach this far but he would never win it. He is the weakest of the Division winners no doubt. So of course Cloud won with above 60% too. Of course at the start of the match Cloud was around 51.5% and look where he reached. Man can you imagine this early result like 10 years ago? It would have filled like 5 stats topics! But now? Eh.

Also Alucard has faced Cloud in the very first ever contest where he lost with around 70% too. Now he did 10% better. Of course things have changed a lot since then. Also Alucard is one of the few characters that has appeared in all contests too. So yeah Alucard lost easily but he impressed. The plan man!

Now for Cloud...I guess this is a decent result. I can't really say because I guess that means that either all Alucard's opponents are weak or Cloud has dropped a lot or some combination of it. Or anything I guess. Still Cloud won and that is fine.

Crono VS Bowser
Crono(54.88%) defeated Bowser(45.12%)

So yeah Crono won. These 2 have fought before and Crono won with around 57%. Now he did around 3% lower which is to be expected. Many years have passed since then. I would like for Crono to break 55% but he couldn't do it. Still a nice win for Crono.

People say that Crono is weak but the previous contest(the games one)prooved that he is still strong. Don't know why. Also the strange thing about Crono is that ALL other NN'ers have a lot of games and spin offs and guest appearances in other games but Crono has nothing and man he is still really strong.

He is only in 1 game and that is! I mean a lot of years ago he even defeated Mario! Do you think that
would have happened in any other site? Of course no. Still the next match will be amazing I think. Also of course CT is one of my favorite games of all time. Duh.
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Snake VS Zelda
Zelda(50.32%) defeated Snake(49.68%)

This I didn't expectd. Snake was the legit Number 2 in this site, only Link was ahead of him. But man. Okay. Zelda was strong this year. Of course. But beating the Number 2 on this site? Yeah barely but she did it. Okay I know the LOZ series is loved here but seriously? Did BOTW boosted Link, Zelda and Ganondorf that much?

I know I like the contests but this is bad. Now you not only have Link beat everyone but Zelda beating everyone too! Where is the fun on that? As for the match. Snake was winning for around 15 minutes at the start. After like 12 hours Snake managed to get ahead for like 2 hours and that was it. Zelda dominated here. Also this is one of the closest wire to wire matches too.

This contest has a lot of them at least! This is something I guess. But man. A few eople said when Zelda beat Squall that the final would be Link VS Zelda. Of course everyone laughed. But it may happen actually! Don't know what to say. This is unreal. We need to have strong characters that can challenge Link at least.

Now? Now Zelda beats everyone too and Link? If he finishes this tournament with a win less than 65% I would be suprised. Also another match when a NN'er lost to a non NN'er obviously. I wonder how many more will lose until the end of the tournament?

Also this result makes Squall and Aeris look better at least. So that is something.

Sonic VS Auron
Sonic(54.32%) defeated Auron(45.68%)

A normal match this one. Sonic would always win this. Auron was always an elite but never in position to challenge a NNer. But he at least managed to hold Sonic under 55%. I consider this good. Okay he has defeated Sonic but in a 4-way match. Don't know what else to say here. Normal stuff I guess. But man at the next match...Yeah good luck Sonic!
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Samus VS Tifa
Samus(58.93%) defeated Tifa(41.07%)

These 2 have fought before. And Tifa almost became the second person to beat a NN'er 1 VS 1 since Samus won back then with 50.5%! The first person was Bowser actually who scored around 49.4% against Snake in 2005! Tifa did that in 2006. So as you see in the results things have changed a lot.

People couldn't rally for porn sites or something since both opponents are women so no luck there. Funny thing is that after Pikachu and Zelda beat 2 NN'ers, people were afraid and they had lowest win percentages for Samus. But Samus was always extremely strong. Maybe even stronger than Mario from what the stats guys say. Don't know why but she is. So of course she won easily.

FF 7 has fallen a lot. Only the FF 7 remake can give it some boost. Or cameos in KH 3 I guess. Samus of course has a lot of games and she is in Smash too. Still I guess Tifa managed to score at least above 41% so that is decent. I want to see how far Samus will reach myself.

Mario VS Sephiroth
Mario(59.25%) defeated Sephiroth(40.75%)

Remember when Sephiroth beat Mario with more than 61.5%??? This result was always strange for me. Yeah he was really strong back then. But it is FREAKING MARIO! What happened back then? Don't know. Now after all these years Mario defeated Sephiroth with almost as much as Sephiroth defeated Mario back then. This result now I get it.

Mario is the face of the gaming. Pretty sure he is in top 3 of most recognizable video game characters. Tons of games and he is in Smash of course. Sephiroth is the iconic villain of FF 7. And yeah FF 7 is the JRPG that most people that don't know much about gaming refer when they thing about JRPG's. Also so many anime/video game characters that copied his look, meaning long silver or white hair and some form of longcoat. Yup. So anyways.

Personally even though I am a Sephiroth fan I was expecting Mario to score around 60%. As I said above we need FF 7 remake or at least KH 3 to have Cloud and Sephiroth to get some boost in power. At least Sephiroth stayed above 40% so I cosinder this a moral victory.

Also once again as before people had lowest winning predictions for Mario. Man Zelda and Pikachu really scared everyone.
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Last bump.
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Loser Bracket Round 1

Ganondorf VS Mega Man
Mega Man(60.03%) defeated Ganondorf(39.97%)

So after Pikachu defeated MM, he managed to look good here. Of course we couldn't judge Ganondorf's power since well he faced Link, but he didn't even managed to score 40% here.

MM is very strong. It is that Pikachu is damn strong now. He had a new game and he will have a live action movie soon, the first ever for Pokemon too. Also according to stats Ganondorf underperformed here. Still impressive win for MM. Personally I thought he would score around 55% but well I was wrong. Man how much Pikachu has risen!

Also guess Ganondorf didn't get boosted enough from BOTW? Because I find it hard to see that MM has boosted actually. Still impressive win for MM.

Alucard VS Bowser
Bowser(51.24%) defeated Alucard(48.76%)

Man look at this. At the start of the match we thought that Alucard would do it actually! And even though he was always close, Bowser was never in fear of losing at any time except maybe at the start. So does that means that Alucard is really strong now? Because pretty sure nobody expected for the match to be this close.

However according to stats guys this result makes sense. Because Big Boss, Sora and Red would score similar to Bowser which makes sense according to past results. Also this match had the
lowest prediction percentage so far in the contest with around 4.5%! I wonder how much will be the lowest prediction for the contest? Still Bowser did good and he won.
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Some would blame the Ganon pic (and the one from the original Zelda, no less!) for Mega Man doing so well, but who knows if that's so relevant now?
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